Thumamah ibn Uthal, Chief of Yamamah
CompanionChief of Yamamah
Thumamah ibn Uthalثمامة بن أثال
Al-Yamamah
A captured chief who was won over by kindness and cut off grain to Quraysh.
Thumamah, chief of Banu Hanifah, was captured and tied to a pillar of the mosque in Madinah. The Prophet ﷺ asked after him for three days and then freed him. Thumamah washed, returned and became Muslim, saying no face had been more hateful to him and now none was dearer. When Musaylimah rose, he stayed loyal.
The lesson
Mercy can win what force cannot.
Who else is linked?
Source: history
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Companions
- Abu Bakr
- Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Uthman ibn Affan
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Talhah ibn Ubaydullah
- Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
- Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
- Sa'id ibn Zayd
- Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah
- Hamzah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
- Jafar ibn Abi Talib
- Bilal ibn Rabah
- Sumayyah bint Khayyat
- Yasir ibn Amir
- Ammar ibn Yasir
- Khabbab ibn al-Aratt
- Al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam
- Mus'ab ibn Umayr
- Uthman ibn Maz'un
- Suhayb al-Rumi
- Abu Dharr al-Ghifari
- Salman al-Farisi
- Fatimah bint al-Khattab
- Umm Ayman
- Asma bint Abi Bakr
- Asma bint Umays
- As'ad ibn Zurarah
- Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
- Sa'd ibn Ubadah
- Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
- Abu Talhah al-Ansari
- Ubayy ibn Ka'b
- Zayd ibn Thabit
- Mu'adh ibn Jabal
- Anas ibn Malik
- Umm Sulaym bint Milhan
- Umm Haram bint Milhan
- Nusaybah bint Ka'b
- Rufaydah al-Aslamiyyah
- Al-Shifa bint Abdullah
- Umm al-Fadl Lubabah
- Umm Kulthum bint Uqbah
- Asma bint Yazid
- Khawlah bint al-Azwar
- Al-Khansa
- Hind bint Utbah
- Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
- Wahshi ibn Harb
- Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl
- Khalid ibn al-Walid
- Amr ibn al-As
- Usamah ibn Zayd
- Al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin
- Uqbah ibn Nafi
- Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan
- Abdullah ibn Rawahah
- Abdullah ibn Jahsh
- Anas ibn al-Nadr
- Abu Dujanah
- Salim mawla Abi Hudhayfah
- Al-Miqdad ibn al-Aswad
- Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
- Abdullah ibn Abbas
- Abu Hurayrah
- Abdullah ibn Umar
- Abdullah ibn Amr
- Abu Sa'id al-Khudri
- Jabir ibn Abdullah
- Abu Musa al-Ash'ari
- Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman
- Abdullah ibn Salam
- Tamim al-Dari
- Adi ibn Hatim
- Thumamah ibn Uthal
- Abu Lubabah
- Ka'b ibn Malik
- Hilal ibn Umayyah
- Zayd ibn Arqam
- Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr
- Dihyah al-Kalbi
- Hatib ibn Abi Balta'ah
- Amr ibn Umayyah al-Damri
- Hassan ibn Thabit